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A passenger hid bullets in a baby diaper at New York's LaGuardia Airport. TSA officers caught him

apnews.com A passenger hid bullets in a baby diaper at New York's LaGuardia Airport. TSA officers caught him

The TSA says security officers found 17 bullets concealed inside a disposable baby diaper at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.

It was a loaded diaper, but not like you would think.

Security officers found 17 bullets concealed inside a disposable baby diaper Wednesday at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, the Transportation Security Administration said.

Officers pulled the otherwise clean diaper from a passenger’s carry-on bag after it triggered an alarm in an X-ray machine at an airport security checkpoint, the TSA said.

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What's actually news worthy is that TSA managed to catch this. Their success rate is abysmal, so I'm sure this is a big confidence boost for them.

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- In their defense, they stare at a screen all day looking for contraband. The human brain can only do a task like that well for maybe 15 minutes before zoning out.
  
  I know people who worked in manufacturing. There was a quality control position where a worker had to look at glass going by them on a assembly line looking for defects. They studied how long a person could reliability do that before they started missing defects. It was only about 10 minutes.
  
  I think if that story every time I go to the airport, or when the TSA get trashed for missing half of the weapons they're supposed to be searching for.
  
  AI should be used to assist roles like that.
  
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  Have you ever looked at their screen? This isn't a 1970's scan, the computer automatically flags anomalies and makes a box around them.
  
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  They're constantly being switched out at my airport (ATL). Either they are on a similarly short schedule, or I'm lucky enough to always hit shift change :/
  
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- Very much this. Four times I’ve accidentally flown with live ammo in my carry on and gotten through the TSA checkpoint unflagged. I can also verify that the hand swab thing they do doesn’t pick up gunpowder.
  
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  So then it’s not just a funny username
  
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Why the hell would anyone need to carry bullets that badly?

The TSA identified the passenger as a man from Arkansas…

Never mind.

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the passenger initially claimed he didn’t know how the bullet-filled diaper ended up in his bag.

If anything, it just confirms how irresponsible they are.

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- He said he suspected his gf did it...
  
  Like, why just bring bullets but no gun?
  
  That's something entirely nonsensical even for an idiot that tries to smuggle a gun onto a plane.
  
  But, if someone wanted to fuck another person over for any number of reasons....
  
  Hiding some bullets in their carry on would do the trick.
  
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  I used to run a CNC laser. It would cut 2-d shapes out of metal up to 19mm thick.
  
  We had a supervisor who was going on a trip once, and we joked about cutting out the silhouette of a handgun and sewing it into the lining of a carryon bag. We didn't do it, but I could see a stunt like that causing problems.
  
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  Who knows, maybe it's just my gf doesn't have a bunch of bullets in her pockets to shove in a bag while I'm not looking.
  Whether it's him or her, that household kinda has an issue with safe firearm/ammo storage and handling.
  
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  It looks like they came from two different boxes too. Like she wanted to include both in case one didn't get detected as easily.
  
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That's just what happens when you feed fully loaded guns to babies. Bullets are the corn of the consumed weapons world.

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- I know this is satire but with the shit I've seen come out of america I would nit he surprised if someone has actually tried to feed their baby a loaded gun
  
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Just. Fucking. Why?!

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- iT's MuH rIgHt To HaVe A gUn On A pLaNe
  
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  The dumb thing is this wasn't even a gun, just bullets. Bullets are easy and legal to buy so why smuggle them?
  
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Löded dïper

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All that trouble over maybe $10 worth of ammunition... You'd think they'd just quietly drop it in the trash or something. It's not like it's some kind of ultra-precious irreplaceable unobtanium or something.

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- Yeah this ain’t 5.7mm we’re talking about here
  
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- It was if they were planning to kill someone at a particular time and place to avoid some consequences for themselves... Probably John Wick.
  
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- TSA will do anything to justify their existence. Finding anything related to weapons is like pornography to them.
  
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  TSA are pointless. Airport security is a necessity but you don't need the level of stupid that they go to. Every time they find anything it's because of the metal detector or an x-ray scan, not some super high level training.
  
  They should just go back to having normal security. It's equally as effective and doesn't cost as much. Plus no more security doesn't drop my iPad.
  
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- "BUT IT'S MAH RIGHTS TO CARRY BULLETS ON THIS AIRPLANE! FREEZE PEACH!"
  
  /s
  
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I remember when I was a teenager flying back from a hunting trip and I had my sister with me, the TSA did their usual routine of giving me a hard time because they think fucking with the autistic kid is funny, she breezed through, we get on the plane and are in the air when she nudges me and pulls A HANDFUL OF SHOTGUN SHELLS out of her pocket. Like, put those things the FUCK back in your pocket.

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the otherwise clean diaper

I love that part. You mean he didn't put his bullets in a shit-filled diaper?

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- How else do you get shitgun ammo?
  
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Löded Diper

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That baby shits lead.

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- Probs leading to an ass shooting.
  
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Which is just bizarre because on their own, bullets aren't dangerous.

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- I mean, it is still a few grams of explosive.
  
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